8th June 2016 Quilting big and small stitches.

I usually work from the floor when adding the borders when my quilt is to big for our table, but I find it very very difficult now and can only bend over and add one border a day. I need to snip a little off a border here and added there to make these borders fit?

This is what hubby did for me last night!!!!! He set up 2 of our portable tables which are solid as a rock and it gives me  all most a 2 metre square!!!!  Oh what bliss I can stand or sit on an office chair on wheels and wiz around and around my Huge work tableLOL

Almost completed quilt top!!!!!  two hearts flowers to finish appliquéing and it is finished my second  WIP finished this year Yahhhhh.  This is lying in the driveway where there is some light it is so dark inside still.  I just took this 10am.

I finished sashiko quilting this wee quilt during the week one down 3 to go LOL   These are my first 90 Quilty364 Circles.  Squares are 4 1/2 inches.

This was one of the first quilts I made. I was living in PNG and meeting up with other wives  who were stationed up there;  we were all new at quilting and it was trial and error.  From this group 6 of us who were more keen to learn and share meet weekly and set challengers, This challenge was to use a block we had just learnt and make it in to a tropical quilt?????  I choose the dresden plate and ended up with this quilt which ended at the black border.   I have just added the last two borders to make it bigger for cuddling under and now Im adding more quilting as I had only quilted around the outline of the appliqué pieces.  I have all most completed echo quilting two of the dresden plates 3 more to go!!!!!! it is a lot slower than sashiko quilt thats for sure.  LOL

Close up of the echo quilting.

Close up of one of our local butterflies we have 100s of these at present but they are hard to get close up to as they flit constantly.

I was gardening on Monday and found this very large fellow, he was very dead but wanted to show how big he was.  twice the length of a box of matches and his body was as wide!

I have not seen this wee fellow in my garden before, he was quiet greeny yellow down his sides and was not scared of me in the slightest,  I need to find a way to hold a torch and take photos , I don’t like using the flash on  the wee creatures .

First rays of sun hitting the cosmos

This pile of rubbish is from the swimming pool area it is one of three!!!!

Sun is slow at rising now and travels low on the horizon so we don’t get full sun in the garden till midday.  here it is casting wonderful shadow play.

Copper frogs hiding in the creepers.